Dr. Santillano joined the Education Research Alliance team after spending five years as a research economist at Mathematica Policy Research. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where his dissertation focused on the integration of immigrant students in public schools. He will present work on the relationship between school accountability policies and market-based education reforms.
Dr. Arce-Trigatti received her PhD in economics from the University of Houston in 2014. Her research interests broadly encompass public economics and labor economics, with a specialized interest in the economics of education. Her current research focuses on the relationship between state-level education policy and student outcomes. She is also interested in researching the economics of innovation with respect to education, as well as policies related to higher education.
Sean Higgins is a PhD Candidate at Tulane’s Department of Economics and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. His current research focuses on access to banking services for the poor in Mexico, where he spent the past academic year as a Fulbright Scholar and is launching a randomized control trial with the Mexican government to test various banking interventions for the poor.
Nora Lustig is Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics at Tulane University (New Orleans, LA) and a nonresident Fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue (Washington, DC). Her current research focuses on assessing the incidence of taxation and social spending in over twenty countries around the world, and on the determinants of income distribution dynamics in Latin America.
Dr. Button researches in three areas. First, he researches discrimination in labor markets on the basis of age or disability. He is currently working on a field experiment to quantify how much discrimination older workers face, and what factors influence the amount of discrimination. He also studies the impact of employment non-discrimination laws on older or disabled workers. Second, Button studies how tax incentives for economic development affect where firms operate, using tax incentives for the film industry as a case study.
Janet Schwartz is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Tulane University in the A.B. Freeman School of Business. She has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Rutgers University. Her current research is at the intersection of marketing and public policy where she uses insights from behavioral economics to investigate how consumers navigate the healthcare marketplace. She uses a variety of methods to better understand healthcare as a consumer experience. Her hope is that these insights can be used to inform policy that improves consumer welfare.
Jane Arnold Lincove holds a PhD in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and a Masters in Public Policy from UCLA. Her research examines the design and effects of market-based education reforms in the US and developing countries.
The one-day conference will focus on the theoretical underpinnings of moral decision making and their applications to a variety of issues in the marketplace. The conference will provide an outlet for researchers from a range of disciplines including anthropology, psychology, and philosophy to share their approaches, findings, and exchange in a discussion of their work.
This one-day conference will explore new contributions to behavioral public economics, including empirical, experimental, and theoretical contributions. The conference aims to bring together researchers across disciplines including economics, psychology, law, and accounting to explore recent advances in the field and to increase awareness of the subject.
Conference participants include:
The Tulane Tax Roundtable brings together tax scholars from around the country, resident Tulane Faculty, and Tulane students for discussion and debate about important tax policy issues of our time. The roundtable showcases the drafts and works-in-progress of its participants and subjects these works to rigorous analysis in a discussant-driven workshop format.
8:55 am to 9:00 am
Welcome Remarks from David D. Meyer, Dean and Mitchell Franklin Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School
